Telangana Electricity Employees ‘maha dharna’ postponed
The union leaders said as the SPDCL management had responded positively to their demands, the union had decided to postpone the protest.
Hyderabad: The Telangana Electricity Employees 1104 union’s proposed ‘maha dharna’ at the corporate office of Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited (TGSPDCL) on Saturday has been postponed.
The union leaders said as the SPDCL management had responded positively to their demands, the union had decided to postpone the protest. The union representatives held a discussion with SPDCL Chairman and Managing Director Musharraf Ali Faruqui on Friday and after his assurance to resolve the long pending demand of the power staff, it was decided to postpone the dharna. The union has threatened to hold a ‘maha dharna’ on October 26, if the long-standing issues faced by the employees and artisans working in the company were not resolved.
State general secretary of the union, affiliated with CPI(M), G Saibabu, gave a notice to TGSPDCL Chairman and Managing Director Musharaff Ali Faruqui on Thursday evening, informing that if their demands were not considered in next few days, the union would hold a massive protest at the SPDCL headquarters in which employees from all the offices across the State would take part.
